Teaser Tuesdays -- Left Behind vs. Creation Care

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

The new evangelical concern for environmental sustainability is a direct counterpoint to the more fundamentalist stance of those behind the Left Behind books who predict the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ and use their apocalyptic theology as an excuse to ignore environmental issues and other concerns about this world.  Being good stewards of God's creation and caring about what happens in all God's world is simply much better theology than the bad eschatology (of the "end times") that leads to a cop-out of Christian responsibility in the name of alleged biblical prophecy.

 ~p.146-147, The Great Awakening:  Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America by Jim Wallis